The hiring and firing processes within the Department of Veterans Affairs dominated the conversation at Wednesday's House veterans affairs committee meeting. Committee members met to review the agency’s accountability this year.

In a remote canyon in northwestern New Mexico, large pueblos made from stone and wood nearly a millennia old still stand. New research suggests when the canyon dwellers changed where they sourced materials from, it turned their small buildings into massive structures.

The family of a 23-year-old Peoria man who died earlier this year while serving time in a private prison near Kingman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the prison’s former operator and the state of Arizona.

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